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Sentence count:260+6Posted:2016-11-07Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: battlecollidecome acrossconfrontmeetopposeSimilar words: countercountermandcounterpartencouragecountycountrycount oncount outMeaning: [ɪn'kaʊntə]  n. 1. a minor short-term fight 2. a casual or unexpected convergence 3. a casual meeting with a person of thing 4. a hostile disagreement face-to-face. v. 1. come together 2. come upon, as if by accident; meet with 3. be beset by 4. experience as a reaction 5. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle. 
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121. It's an encounter with women on the edge of transition, discontented and yet disarmed.
122. There is one encounter worth mentioning before we bring to an end this account of Lewis in 1939.
123. The objections to truth-telling we most frequently encounter fall into four general categories.
124. In each encounter with discourse, we start with a set of assumptions, whose accuracy we seek to improve.
125. But this was her first personal encounter with such a craft.
126. The field notes describe the encounter thus: A little boy appeared in the doorway.
127. For Rosenberg, faced with the realities of the world, the canvas would become the site of an existential encounter.
128. Spirit baptism was not just an initiation rite, it was a mystical encounter.
129. A chance encounter in a restaurant led to her first movie role.
130. She would just glance quickly into each room and hope she didn't encounter anyone who knew her.
131. After one encounter, I did draw one: I let no one near me with chewing gum in his mouth.
132. After our dour 3-0 defeat against Leech, we certainly had that carefree spirit in our midweek encounter with champions Gosling Celtic.
133. But what you might encounter now is a club that has suffered not a devastating loss, but a jarring comeuppance.
134. We encounter Judd before the rest of the minimalists and Clyfford Still after his fellow abstract expressionists.
135. It was, in other words, the kind of book you encounter with increased frequency as you move through college.
136. Writing of many types may assist a reader who looks forward to an encounter with a work of art.
137. The result is that we encounter unsuspected shades of gray, with solo flute and bassoon weaving ironic commentaries.
138. Debon, a woman who speaks of past lives and lost fortunes, was reluctant to talk after that first encounter.
139. Feminists encounter similar problems in dealing with differences between subjects.
140. Norman still has a scar on his hand from an encounter with a female copperhead when he was a teen-ager.
141. In a close encounter last season, Gloucester pipped Northampton by 7 points to 6.
142. At that the Barnett contingent, already worked up from their previous encounter[Sentencedict.com], began to hurl stones at the two brothers.
143. A chance encounter at the conference gave him the opportunity to tell the professor about his work.
144. But what was afoot was not an encounter between natural forces, or even animals, but people.
145. Measures to prevent the competitive liberalization of consumer credit will encounter the heaviest resistance.
146. When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it. Mehmet Murat ildan 
147. The roughest road they will likely encounter is a parking lot studded with speed bumps.
148. My encounter with the gorilla in the pit angered me not just because of the badmouthing but because of his rotten timing.
149. Angelakos, 76 and retired since 1990, says the physical damage and emotional effects of his encounter have faded.
150. The therapeutic encounter is one in which two people communicate with one another, using a language.
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